United Learning chooses Arbor MIS for all 72 of its state schools

Harriet Cheng - 17 July, 2020

Arbor Updates | MATs

Category : Blog

United Learning chooses Arbor MIS for all 72 of its state schools

We’re proud to announce that United Learning, the largest mixed-phase MAT in England, has just chosen Arbor MIS for its 72 state schools. More schools switch to Arbor than any other MIS, and we now support the two largest primary and secondary MATs in the UK!

From Autumn Term 2020, 34 secondary schools and 23 primary schools in United Learning will move to Arbor – joining the 15 United Learning schools who already use us. Together they’ll join our growing community of over 1,000 schools and 100 MATs who have all chosen Arbor to help transform the way they work – including REAch2, the largest primary school MAT, who moved to Arbor in 2018.

The MIS of choice for schools across all phases:

As a large mixed-phased trust, United Learning chose Arbor to help them analyse information across all their schools simply and effectively, automate repetitive administrative tasks and operate remotely at scale all from one system. 

Dominic Norrish, Chief Operating Officer at United Learning said: “United Learning are excited to realise the benefits that a modern cloud-based MIS such as Arbor will bring to our schools – resilience, mobility, security and the reduced costs of a single, highly capable tool.”

We’ve taken the time to build out features tailored to each school phase:

• For MATs: Arbor’s Group MIS lets you work across all your schools from one central system, so you can collaborate more easily and really understand what’s going on. Arbor allow’s you to track performance from a distance, compare data across schools, manage your staff, and communicate with everyone centrally.
• For Secondary Schools: Our MIS for secondaries lets you analyse your data in any way you like. Choose our built-in Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards, or securely export your data to external analysis tools like Power BI, Google Sheets or Excel. Roll out your behaviour policies consistently and automate time-consuming follow-ups such as booking detentions and notifying parents. Arbor also includes end-to-end exams management, cover planning, timetabling, and interventions management.
• For Primary Schools: With Arbor for primaries, daily jobs like chasing absent students and following up on incidents are simple and painless. Our MIS brings all your student and staff data together so you can easily spot patterns, and get the data you need at your fingertips to tell the full story of each pupil as they progress through school. Our primary schools love our lightning-fast registers and simple census tools, too.

100 MATs have chosen Arbor MIS in the last 3 years…

United Learning is the latest MAT to choose Arbor – joining trusts like REAch2, Aspire, Diocese of Salisbury Academy Trust, Red Kite, LEO Academy Trust, Wellspring, and Hoyland Common Academy Trust who have all moved to Arbor in recent years. 

…and more schools chose Arbor in 2019 than any other MIS system

320 schools started using Arbor between January-December 2019, joining the growing movement of schools switching to the cloud to transform the way they work. Recently we’ve been focused on helping our schools work flexibly and remotely during Covid-19, with over 250 schools having moved to Arbor during lockdown! We’ve built out our MIS to help schools manage staff rotas, communicate with parents, and set classwork remotely (see more on that here).

You can read more about our cloud-based MIS in our brochures for primary and  secondary schools (click here), and MATs (click here).

Interested to see whether Arbor could be a good fit for your school or trust?

We’d be more than happy to arrange a remote, personalised demo for your team – just click here, or reach us at hello@arbor-education.com or call 0208 050 1028.